Boards

I find I can't keep up/don't want to keep up anymore 'coz it brings me out in some Sartrean nausea... "Quick, what do I listen to next before it all slips through my fingers like water that I can never hold onto..?"
I usually go home, put on something lasting like The Smiths/Bunnymen/early Suede/Achtung Baby etc and shut my door to the incessant noise of the world of new music.
What's wrong with the bands we already have? Are we (the music-listening/buying public) guilty of not giving enough support to the existing bands that we like in the rush for 'the new', which means that many of them have to call it a day?
Anyone else feel like this?

Sometimes I think I should break up my band, cause we're just adding to the white noise of too much bandage, and someone ought to make a stand. Maybe we'd even get some support from other bands who see the problem. Like maybe Metallica.
But then I think - no, come on, suck it up. We're the best band in the world. If we let these shitheels get to us we'll be no better than Phonetaste, The Unlikely Haircuts or Eurothought, who all variously split up before they even bothered forming, cause there are just Too Many Bands.

Oasis, Doherty and the resurgence of pubrock of recent years, there's definitely a shortage of bands doing anything interesting, who view paul weller as a hero, who emulate steve craddock, who forget to do anything original whatsoever. It used to be that the good bands would cut through these bands but due to the amount of music/pastiche produced I think a lot of brilliant bands are missed.

Imagine you are Huw Stephens and you're on your 30th cd-r of weak pub rock or ableton busked indie dance, then an amazing song suddenly comes on and he's missed it because his ears have worn out and all he can hear is jangle jangle whine whine. No wonder radio relies on pluggers so much to tell them what is worthwhile!